If you’d like to use an alternative console font for CMD.exe in Windows, check out the scoop from Microsoft Support on how to set it up…

The fonts must meet the following criteria to be available in a command session window:

The font must be a fixed-pitch font.

The font cannot be an italic font.

The font cannot have a negative A or C space.

If it is a TrueType font, it must be FF_MODERN.

If it is not a TrueType font, it must be OEM_CHARSET.

Additional criteria for Asian installations:

If it is not a TrueType font, the face name must be “Terminal.”

If it is an Asian TrueType font, it must also be an Asian character set.

In Windows 2000, the installation of Console Fonts is no longer automated. This was done to give the console window greater stability in multilanguage environments. An unsupported work around is available by adding the following font specific entry:

Droid Sans Mono:
Straight from the Android SDK comes the Droid Sans Mono font, which is quite similar to the DejaVu Sans Mono font listed above. You can grab this from the Android SDK download, or you can get it directly from the damieng blog here: Droid Sans Mono great coding font